Dhir Shamsher Rana

Dhir Shamsher Rana (1828-14 October 1884) was commander-in-chief of the Nepalese army from 11 May 1879 to 14 October 1884.

Biography
Dhir Shamsher Kunwar Rana was born in 1828 to the Kunwar family, and he was the younger brother of Jung Bahadur Rana. On 14 September 1846, the Kunwar brothers massacred 29 nobles at Kot and seized power for themselves, with Dhir becoming a general in the Nepalese army. He fought in the 1855-56 Nepalese-Tibetan War, and he commanded a force of 3,000 troops sent to help the British suppress the Sepoy Mutiny in 1857. He then served as the army's commander-in-chief from 1879 until his death in 1884.